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This article advocates a future without traditional boundaries between work and home and learning. Although effectively such a relaxing of boundaries is under way, we must also think that boundaries are what makes sense fo the world.
See my article about "Open sourcing ideas: a hacker approach to learning working and writing."

This article advocates a future without traditional boundaries between work and home and learning. Although effectively such a relaxing of boundaries is under way, we must also think that boundaries are what makes sense of the world.
See my article about "Open sourcing ideas: a hacker approach to learning working and writing."

The US Congress considers additional funding for research and development work focused on applying technology to improve education. Two main goals would be to fund digitisation of content and to act as a clearinghouse for R&D into advanced technology applications for training and learning

Where the resistance lise!

It's hilarious when you think about it: technology is touted as being one of the key drivers of change, but those people sitting on power over how we use IT in companies and administrations are some of the least capable of embracing change.

The reactions give even more insight. Trying out innovative new tools is by the respondents regarded as sth that is not key to business processes. You should only be allowed to use tools that are tested. Understandable from some perspectives, but couldn't IT departments become a little more open in supporting and working together with advanced users?

A while ago, Roger Blamire mentioned a book called The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell that discusses how change comes about and advocates, amongst other things, the idea that a limited number of key players largely influence the spread of innovation. These trendsetters have come to be called the "influentials". A recent article in FastCompany challenges this idea, writing about the work done by Duncan Watts. Through large scale computer simulations, the latter arrives to the conclusion that the spread of idea has more to do with the "readiness" of society to accept them than the presence of trendsetters.  The polarity between the two approaches, accentuated by the journalist, may be misleading. Both ideas are probably parts of the overall picture. If you are interested about how change takes places, this article is worth a read.

The second half of the New York Times article about innovation. It  highlights the usefulness of the outside perspective. This is one of the rich aspects of peer-exchange work across countires and differing cultures and perspectives that is not properly understood and exploited by peers.

The Schools for Innovation and Excellence initiative commenced in 2003 and supports primary and secondary schools to work closely together in clusters over three years to deliver innovation and excellence in Victorian education. Clusters receive funding to develop strategically effective education programs to advance student learning. From 2005, every Victorian government school will be in a cluster, with a total of 247 clusters in operation.

The following text is based on the answers of thirty-three experts from sixteen European countries to a series of questions about possible changes in education as a response to one of eight challenges identified by the European Commission in its working p